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The Record

What is public, what is missing, and what we are doing about it.

Open datasets, the access-request ledger, and the registry of what each public source can and cannot see.

Open dataset v1

The Case Study 01 relational dataset: 52 decisions, 37 matters, pseudonymized, with a data dictionary, controlled vocabularies and a confidence score on every extracted field. A silent field is recorded as silent, never as zero. Release accompanies the case study; the dataset page will host the download.

The corpus-gap registry

What each source can see: CanLII publishes decisions but prohibits automated collection and lists no file numbers on its indexes. A2AJ, Canada's leading open-legal-data project, holds the full federal CHRT corpus — and no HRTO, and no Ontario Divisional Court. Tribunals Ontario posts quarterly volume CSVs at predictable URLs that are not listed in the Ontario Data Catalogue. Applications that never produce a decision appear in no public source at all. Canada's open-legal-data infrastructure cannot see Ontario's human rights record — that is a finding, not a footnote.

The ledgers and the gap

Access requests